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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20790, member: 57463&quot;]Writing about his &quot;Welsh Penny of Hywel Dda, ca. 940 A.D.&quot;&nbsp; agaricus65 mentioned that he traced his ancestry to the king who issued the coin.&nbsp; That aspect -- numismatics as family history -- comes up occasionally.&nbsp; Here are two coins from the distaff side of my family: my mother&#039;s parents were Hungarian.&nbsp; I have about a dozen or so, half from the Malcontents Revolt of 1703 and the others from the Middle Ages.&nbsp; Not counted are a few more from the late 1800s and early 1900s. </p><p><br /></p><p>The larger coins of the Malcontents Revolt were rolled and are not flat.&nbsp; This little One Poltura is about the size of a 25-cent quarter dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other coin is a modern commemorative, celebrating Sandor Korosi-Csoma.&nbsp; I ran into him while teaching myself to read Tibetan in order to attribute 250 coins for a dealer who was submitting them to an auction house for a client.&nbsp; Korosi-Csoma taught himself philology, walked to Tibet from Europe and wrote the first formal western grammar of their language.&nbsp; Cool enough, but, in addition, in the front of his book, he identified himself as a &quot;Siculo-Magyar&quot; and I could really relate to that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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